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Sudan is the site of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with around 25 million people in need of urgent assistance.
Even the type of street trees planted in a city can make a huge difference.
Brisbane is aiming to be the first Olympic Games host to make carbon savings greater than the emissions the event produces. That’s easier said than done, so what’s the plan to achieve this goal?
They’re not what many of us imagine when we think of schools, but building them vertically could make our cities better for everyone.
While trees are beautiful and benefit the environment, the most practical argument for planting more is that they provide a clear public health benefit, both in the preventive and therapeutic sense.
Many houses of worship no longer need as much space as they once did, or struggle to keep up with the bills. For some, redevelopment to include housing provides a new way to live out their mission.
The term stroad is portmanteau of street and road. Stroads try to be both a thoroughfare for vehicles, and a place for people. Typically they fail at both, and the result is unpleasant for everyone.
Planning for residents’ needs must be done well in advance to ease public fears about new high-density housing projects lacking open space for recreation.
Healthy planning debates shape our cities for the better and should not exclude anyone based on crude characterisations of their motives.
Neighbourhood planning with community engagement is now treated as a barrier to better cities. For disadvantaged neighbourhoods, this shift threatens to perpetuate inequities.
Large banditry and terror attacks were relatively rare in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria’s south-west region until recently.
Current construction approaches are too slow to achieve the ambitious national housing target. But there’s a proven alternative building technology that’s more efficient, faster and greener.
Access to nature is provenly beneficial. Yet the UK’s urban green spaces are poorly funded and are vulnerable to local government budget cuts.
Two recent research documents provide a substantial basis for assessing how the draft policy shapes up and identifying where it falls down.
New Zealand tends to focus on big infrastructural projects such as tunnels or light rail to change cities. But there are cheaper ways to add public spaces to urban design.
From special paving to green walls, the recent Cool Towns project highlights the best ways to protect urban areas, and the people living there, from the effects of heatwaves.
Before we draw conclusions about the implications of social isolation, we should check our expectations of how, when and why neighbouring does or does not happen.
Urban policy needs to look beyond housing development and address the land ownership patterns that underpin our cities.
Infill development is patchy across Australian cities, as is its quality. Bigger and better projects are needed to hit planning targets and reduce urban sprawl.
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Acting Director, CHETRE, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
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Professor, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
